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Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, “Give her a chance here.” And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.

Barbara Mikulski

College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families
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College Dream Financial
I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.
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Country Promoting Thinking Women
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
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Bankruptcy Government Responsibility
[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.
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Equal Pay Fighting Passages
I think George Mitchell was good for Maryland in the sense that he helped me get elected. It doesn’t get any better than that from here on.
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Country Elect Help Maryland People Sense Thinking
I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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Ambassadors Country United States
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty
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Country Job Minimum Wage
One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that’s how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate’s history.
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Bridge Missing Opportunity
George [Mitchell] introduced the idea that we’d go on a retreat [and] to really regularize caucuses. He’s the one who had I think [Tom] Daschle become the Democratic Policy Committee chairman, so I think it lived through with Tom.
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Goes Ideas On Thinking
Politics is social work with power.
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Philanthropy Social Work
People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that’s a hallmark of a very good leader.
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Leader People Thinking
The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable
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America Military Rights
I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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Guy Kind Share
I didn’t know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.
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Jobs Know Nafta Suspious
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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Retirement Senior Sick
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
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Change Differences Making Mind
Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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Political Retirement Senior
People aren’t for hitting.
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Hitting People Violence
Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, “Give her a chance here.” And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.
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Bob Giving Way
The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.
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Family Survival Symbols
When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.
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Blue Party White
Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.
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Legends Pope Supportive
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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Age Important Safety
In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.
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Believe Helping Others Volunteer
I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country
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Country Hurt Social
My own father had died of Alzheimer’s. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.
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Alzheimer Father Thinking
When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves
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Country Safety Senior

Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, “Give her a chance here.” And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.

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Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, “Give her a chance here.” And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments.

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